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disna

disna contraction: does not.

Contraction

disna

  1. (Scotland, colloquial, contraction) does not
    • Ah but, Nanse woman, I'm sad to say that he disna believe what he reads in his Bible.1874, “Is a Miracle Credible?”, in The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Worker, page 209
    • She was awful raised kind, and wanderin' and that, at the first; but she disna ken onything now, and she disna speak; she's just a sort o' done out, peer creature; but doctor thinks maybe there'll come a lightenin' or she go.1884, Mary Charlotte J. Leith, From over the water, page 328

Examples of disna in a sentence

  • No, she disna, she bides at the tother end o' the road.1906, “The Auld Lads of Corrievreckan”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 145:
  • It begins at Port Said and disna stop till ye come to San Francisco, … if there !1923, “Olfaction and Public Health”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, page 10:

Origin of disna

From Scots.

Questions about disna

What does disna mean?
Disna means does not.
How do you use disna in a sentence?
No, she disna, she bides at the tother end o' the road.
What part of speech is disna?
Disna is a contraction.

Words near disna in the dictionary

  1. dismutation
  2. dismutations
  3. dismutative
  4. dismutator
  5. dismutators
  6. disna
  7. disnaturalise
  8. disnaturalised
  9. disnaturalises
  10. disnaturalising
  11. disnaturalization

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